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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty-One

29th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Hello merry readers, and welcome to another working week and the weather forecast down here in London for the week is pretty good. In fact, the first day there is rain in the forecast [more…]

21st Century

Will Mushrooms Bloom in Haifa?

25th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Underneath the appropriate concern of conventional airborne attacks on Israel by Iran and its progeny lies an anxious appraisal of a potential nuclear attack. That fear is the basic driving force of U.S. policy towards [more…]

21st Century

Teargassing a Baddie

25th September 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

September, 2024 The log had fallen from my eye. It was time to come from behind the screen and take action. If you were to ask 16-year-old me whether a day would come when I’d [more…]

20th Century

European Journey 1953, Part Five – Vienna

24th September 2024 Going Postal 0

Where a smile masks a city’s sorrow This a Tale from the Vienna Woods. A Tale told on a spring morning when, from the white cafe tables perched high on the Kahlenberg, the Danube really [more…]

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Drunk on Power

24th September 2024 well_chuffed 0

Keith has been taking steps, rather large ones, as he attempts to implement the UK equivalent of the former German Democratic Republic in this once green and pleasant land. Much of what follows comes under [more…]

Communism

Where will the money come from?

23rd September 2024 Emile Woolf 0

There’s an old Jewish joke about the elderly family patriarch whose grief-stricken family is tearfully assembled around his deathbed to pay their last respects . “Is Taubele there?” he mutters; “Yes, Papa, I’m here” comes [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Fifty

22nd September 2024 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks, well it was a little chilly early this morning and the thermostat turned the heating on so there was a nice warm radiator when I woke up. So tomorrow nearly 2,000 [more…]

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The Birth of the Angry Young Man

19th September 2024 Going Postal 0

In 1956 the play Look Back in Anger was first staged in Britain. Written by John Osborne, it was the story of Jimmy Porter – who came to symbolise a new force in postwar Britain – the [more…]

21st Century

Debt and the Gen Z protests

18th September 2024 Going Postal 0

31 August, 2024 A generation after the 1980s debt crisis triggered the rebirth of democracy on the continent, will Kenya’s youthful idealists spark a pan-African revolt?   The protests in Kenya mark a turning point [more…]

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